by J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, Sean O'Casey · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140482249
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«The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays» is a collection of drama by J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey, in Penguin paperback.
It brings together three works of Irish theater: The Countess Cathleen (Yeats), The Playboy of the Western World (Synge) and Cock-a-doodle Dandy (O'Casey). In the central piece, a stranger who boasts of having killed his father becomes a local hero; Synge thus satirizes the credulity and myth-making urge of a rural community.
1989 English-language edition, 224 pages, in the Penguin Plays and Screenplays series, with an introduction by W.A. Armstrong.
For readers interested in Irish theater and classic twentieth-century drama.
Edmund John Millington Synge, popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklores. As a key figure of the Irish Literary Revival during the early 20th century, he is widely regarded by critics and scholars as the most prolific playwright in Irish literature of the Edwardian era, and by several of his peers, among them William Butler Yeats.
